Closing the dancing tabs ...

Video of Democrats protesting the Trump administration at the Kennedy Center via interpretive dance. pic.twitter.com/meT5Aj6bG3

— Nick Ballas (@NicholasBallas) February 19, 2025

Ed: THIS IS IT! This is the devastating blow that the Left has been looking to land! I'm not sure one could put the concept of impotence into interpretive dance better than this. 

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CNN: TRUMP HAS CHANGED THE ELECTORATE! pic.twitter.com/o3WyDPfTVf

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 19, 2025

Trump’s overall positive approval is thanks to Republican numbers being majorly boosted in recent years, [CNN's Harry] Enten went on, especially among young voters.

“Look at what’s happened in February of 2025. Look at this: Republicans, there are more Republicans in the electorate than there are Democrats. Republican plus two,” he said. “So Donald Trump and the Republicans have remade the electorate. They’ve turned some people over from being Democrats or independents to become Republicans. New folks have entered the electorate who are more Republican leaning.”

Ed: Well ... the Left will always have the interpretive-dance demo, anyway. I may do more wth this tomorrow, though.

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JUST IN: Woman has meltdown because Trump shut down her job where she studied "how to safely collect s*xual orientation and gender identity" practices.

Lmao. You literally can't tell what's a parody anymore.

"I was told to stop work immediately and that no more research… pic.twitter.com/fdOBSHMEP2

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 19, 2025

Ed: They'd do better with interpretive dance, frankly. If these studies are worthwhile, let Congress debate and vote on them. 

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A common critique of DOGE is: "Why does this matter? The spending data was already available on USASpending.gov! Why didn’t anyone pay attention before?" Prominent figures like Mark Cuban have echoed this criticism.

This criticism reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how databases and data indexing work. The raw data has always existed, but accessibility is what transforms information into insight. That’s why I built award search and name search on DataRepublican.com—to make the data searchable, useful, and actionable.

Ed: This is a key point that people who don't deal much with data sets will miss. The data existed, but not in a comprehensive relational-database form that would allow for full analysis. That's what DOGE built and why we can now trace all of this spending and all of the connections within it. Be sure to read all of the explanation.

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CNN: "We're going to make the government more efficient. We're going to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse...Finally someone is doing something about this and they're moving fast...Finally, they're getting rid of some of the waste...! I can't believe this is what my taxpayer… pic.twitter.com/1KaFZITwZm

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 19, 2025

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DOGE-led mass firings of federal employees are tearing at the promise of job security that's come with government work for more than a century.

Why it matters: Millions of federal workers are now feeling the same kind of job anxiety more familiar to those in corporate America, including the tech sector, where Elon Musk's firing playbook is far more common.

What they're saying: "This is not the same government it was a month ago," a longtime federal employee told Axios, requesting anonymity because they've accepted the administration's "deferred resignation" offer and don't want to jeopardize it.

Ed: So? Why should public-sector employees have any more job security than those in the private sector? That may have made sense in an environment where compensation was lower than in the private sector, but that hasn't been true for decades. Taxpayers are not required to fund the bureaucratic state as if it were an entitlement program.

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Pete Buttigieg says the Democrat Party must infiltrate nonpolitical spaces like tradwife or parenting videos pic.twitter.com/kxbZjZyMwL

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 19, 2025

Ed: Er ... does Buttigieg really think that Democrats' radical-woke agenda will play with tradwives? Has he ever experienced the tradwives communications? This sounds like someone mentioned "tradwives" to him and Buttigieg wants to sound hip with it. But he might have better luck with this next group ...

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When Nicole Daedone co-founded OneTaste in 2004, she presented it as a facilitator of female pleasure and power. OneTaste emphasized "orgasmic meditation," or OMing—a 15-minute partnered clitoral stroking practice meant to foster focus, connection, and mindful sexuality. OMing can help people "discover richer relationships, an embodied sense of self and the uncompromised feeling of wholeness," the OneTaste website advertised in 2009. To OM, "one person strokes another person's clitoris for 15 minutes with no goal other than to feel the sensation," it said in 2018.

There was no mention of snakes. Or magic. Or sex trafficking.

Ed: But do they use interpretive dance to achieve their desired state of bliss? Maybe even the tradwives might be interested in the answer!